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4133 BATCHELOR HALL, KEEN HALL
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Li, Bai-lian Larry

Professor of Ecology

College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences

Botany & Plant Sciences


Biography

Larry Li is Professor of Mathematical and Theoretical Ecology and Director of the CAU-UCR International Center for Ecology and Sustainability at University of California-Riverside with a broad interdisciplinary background and experience in mathematical, statistical and computational modeling applications in ecological studies. He has published more than 130 refereed journal articles, 28 book chapters and proceedings papers, and 8 books or edited special issues. He is faculty associate and Ph.D. major professor with Australian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian and Russian universities and research institutions. He has served on many professional committees and review panels of federal funding agencies in U.S. and internationally. He is also Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the international journal: Ecological Complexity, which Elsevier launched in March 2004, now with the impact factor (2006): 1.688. During the last five years, he has given more than 150 lectures across Asia, Europe and North America, and has been invited to give keynote or plenary lectures to nine major ecology meetings as well as four National Academies. He chairs International Scientific Committee of Eco Summit.

Former Institution

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Degrees

D.Sc. Ecological Modeling 1986

Wuhan University

B.Sc Ecology 1981

Hubei Agricultural University

Awards

Fellow, Institue for Human Ecology, (USA) elected 1988
Visiting Scientist Award, German Ecology Centre of Kiel, 1993, 1994, & 1996
Honorary Professor, Russian Academy of Sciences, elected 2005
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, elected 2006


Research Area

Mathematical and theoretical ecology, plant ecology, ecological modeling, ecological complexity, landscape ecology, and computational and systems biology.

Publications

1. Li, B.L., H. Wu, and G. Zou. 2000. Self-thinning rule: a causal interpretation from ecological field theory. Ecological Modelling, 132: 167-173.

2. Li, B.L. and E.L. Charnov. 2001. Diversity-stability relationships revisited: scaling rules for biological communities near equilibrium. Ecological Modelling, 140: 247-254.

3. Li, B.L., 2002. A theoretical framework of ecological phase transitions for characterizing tree-grass dynamics. Acta Biotheoretica, 53: 141-154.

4. Medvinsky, A.B., S.V. Petrovskii, I.A. Tikhonova, H. Malchow, and B.L. Li. 2002. Spatiotemporal complexity of plankton and fish dynamics. SIAM Review, 44: 311-370.

5. Makarieva, A.M., V.G. Gorshkov, and B.L. Li. 2003. A note on metabolic rate dependence on body size in plants and animals. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 221: 301-307.

6. Chen, X, B.L. Li, and Z.S. Lin. 2003. The acceleration of succession for the restoration of the mixed-broadleaved Korean pine forests in Northeast China. Forest Ecol. Manage., 177: 503-514.

7. Chen, X. X. Zhang, and B.L. Li. 2003. The possible response of life zones in China under global climate change. Global and Planetary Change, 38: 327-337.

8. Kolasa, J. and B.L. Li. 2003. Removing the confounding effect of habitat specialization reveals the stabilizing contribution of diversity to species variability. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B (Suppl.), 270: S198-S201.

9. Li, B.L., V.G. Gorshkov, and A.M. Makarieva. 2004. Energy partitioning between different-sized organisms and ecosystem stability. Ecology, 85: 1811-1813.

10. Makarieva, A.M., V.G. Gorshkov, and B.L. Li. 2004. Body size, energy consumption and allometric scaling: a new dimension in the diversity-stability debate. Ecological Complexity, 1: 139-175.

11. Morozov, A., S. Petrovskii, and B.L. Li. 2004. Bifurcations and chaos in a predator-prey system with the Allee effect. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B, 271: 1407-1414.

12. Medvinsky, A.B., A.Y. Morozov, V.V. Velkov, B.L. Li, M.S. Sokolov, and H. Malchow. 2004. Modeling the invasion of recessive Bt resistant insects: an impact on transgenic plants. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 231: 121-127.

13. Chen, X., B.L. Li., and S.L. Collins. 2005. Multiscale monitoring of a multispecies case study: two grass species at Sevilleta. Plant Ecology, 179: 149-154.

14. Chen, X., B.L. Li., T.A. Scott, T. Tennant, J.T. Rotenberry, and M.F. Allen. 2005. Spatial structure of multispecies distributions in southern California, USA. Biological Conservation, 124: 169-175.

15. Petrovskii, S., A. Morozov, and B.L. Li. 2005. Regimes of biological invasion in a predator-prey system with the Allee effect. Bull. Mathematical Biology, 67: 637-661.

16. Makarieva, A.M., V.G. Gorshkov, and B.L. Li. 2005. Biochemical universality of living matter and its metabolic implications. Functional Ecology, 19: 547-557.

17. Makarieva, A.M., V.G. Gorshkov, and B.L. Li. 2005. Energetics of the smallest: do bacteria breathe at the same rate as whales? Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B, 272: 2219–2224.

18. Makarieva, A.M., V.G. Gorshkov, and B.L. Li. 2005. Gigantism, temperature and metabolic rate in terrestrial poikilotherms. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B, 272: 2325-2328.

19. Chakraborty, A., D.K. Bhattacharya, and B.L. Li. 2006. Spatiotemporal dynamics of methane emission from rice fields at global scale. Ecological Complexity, 3: 231-240.

20. Chen, X., C.W. Barrows, and B.L. Li. 2006. Phase coupling and spatial synchrony of subpopulations of an endangered dune lizard. Landscape Ecology, 21: 1185-1193.

21. Makarieva, A.M., V.G. Gorshkov, and B.L. Li. 2006. Conservation of water cycle on land via restoration of natural closed-canopy forests: Implications for regional landscape planning. Ecological Research, 21: 897-906.

22. Medvinsky, A.B., M.M. Gonik, B.L. Li, V.V. Velkov, and H. Malchow. 2006. Invasion of pests resistant to Bt toxins lead to inherent non-uniqueness in genetically modified Bt-plant dynamics: mathematical modeling. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 242: 539-546.

23. Morozov, A. and B.L. Li. 2006. Parametric analysis of a predator-prey system stabilized by a top predator. J. Mathematical Biology, 53: 305-335.
24. Morozov, A., S. Petrovskii, and B.L. Li. 2006. Spatiotemporal complexity of patchy invasion in a predator-prey system with the Allee effect. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 238: 18-35.

25. Morozov, A. and B.L. Li. 2007. On the importance of dimensionality of space in models of space-mediated population persistence. Theoretical Population Biology, 71: 278-289.